Dreaming of an MBA and Still an Undergrad

[Tucker]

As an undergraduate senior, I am thinking of my road to an eventual MBA. Seeing how what it means to "get an MBA" has changed in the past decade when considering its wide-spread availibilty even to the extent of getting it online, I want to make sure that I am getting an MBA that has weight to it. Something that will take me into my future, which hopefully involves lots of 0's in my paycheck. All of that to say: I want ot get into a top ten if not top 5 MBA school! Here is the deal, I want to get deferred acceptance NOW having not garnered the full time work experience that top schools require.

 

So my question is, what are some schools and what is the best route for undergraduate students who want deferred acceptance into top MBA schools with lack of work experience, but who plan to work after they graduate? In other words, first get accepted into top 10 MBA as undergrad -> Work 2 years -> Attend school that was accepted as an undergad

 

I already have done some research on the subject:

 

- Harvard has the 2+2 program (but this apparently is geared to promising students that are from non-business like majors looking for a door into business- I am an accounting major)

-Stanford has a deferred acceptance (but deferred acceptance seems to be for reasons other than lack of work experience such as medical reasons, therefore not applicable to me)

 

More about me if it helps:

-4.0 accounting major

-3 summer's worth of full-time work experience (1 as an internal auditor at a major oil copany)

-Studying for GMAT and hoping to get at LEAST a 600 and hopefully a 700

Edited July 14, 2013 by Tucker

[juilletmercredi]

Pardon, but I don't really see the point of this.  Many students go off to work for a few years knowing that they want to go back to business school - I don't see why you shouldn't just go work for 2-5 years and then apply to business school when you're ready to go back, rather than trying to apply now.

 

I did a quick search and it seems that with the exception of Harvard and Stanford's provisions, a lot of b-schools are actually contracting their deferral programs.  Prior to 2009, it was more common for top business schools to allow for deferrals for promising admitted students to pursue some other business opportunities, but it seems like so many students deferred after 2009 (for financial reasons during the recession - either they could no longer afford it, or they were afraid to give up their job and not be able to get another) that a lot of programs tightened these up.  Most of them only do deferrals for medical and emergency reasons.

 

I'd also like to note that the Harvard 2+2 program is extremely competitive.

Edited July 17, 2013 by juilletmercredi